Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. Every business and brand has unique requirements to fit into their market environment. Leadership brand development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

As the rate of change continues to increase in business and technology, the more I’m convinced that marketing is the primary key to success for a new venture. Yet I find that many technical founders don’t feel they need it at all, or at best point to one person on the team who is marketing.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 29, 2019

This is like talking about the NBA and the value of its sponsorships and broadcast rights as if that is the entirety of the basketball market in the US. So I met with many of the publishers, ancillary startups, tournament organizers, and OG players and team owners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2022

I have personally used this approach in leading startups as well as large organizations, in highly technical roles as well as business development and marketing. For one-on-one coaching from the startup founder, I call this approach five-minute mentoring.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2023

They know these exceptional leaders seem to have a way of finding and enticing the best people into the organization, getting exceptional performance out of them, and fast-tracking their careers both inside and outside the organization. Adapt the job or organization to fit the talent.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2022

In my experience as a business advisor, most organizations, large and small, struggle to keep up with the pace of change and competitive forces today. A question I often get is how to transform that overall team into a smooth-running machine that will keep up with the pace of market change, and competition in today’s world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2022

If you aren’t yet adapting to the market and your customers, you are falling behind. In other words, change in your business has to become the accepted norm, just like it is in your market. Be proactive rather than reactive to market change. Demand and reward speedy analysis and execution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Of course, as you work with contract players, explore the potential for a long-term relationship, and wait until your organization matures to pursue career positions. Focus on a very flat organization, with minimal hierarchy. By hiring contract experts, less oversight and coaching is needed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2023

Yet if you already have some early adopters, that's a good indication that real marketing and education will likely bring your product or service mass acceptance. Acquiring business skills is not rocket science; they can be learned on the job, as well as supplemented by coaching from an experienced team and advisors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2022

The largest and most successful businesses of the past have been traditionally driven by autocratic and powerful leaders who managed a highly structured organization of subordinates. Traditional command leadership allowed individual biases and ego to reduce team engagement and miss market changes and new competitors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2021

In my view, the most effective entrepreneurs are those with a background of an array of real-life experiences, both positive and negative, as well as good academic and coaching activities. Depth in a specific business area, such as marketing or accounting, is important in understanding the internal and external processes of a business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2022

These authors reference real cases and real business leaders, based on their decades of experience in building companies and executive coaching. I offer here their summary of purposes and inspirations that have motivated existing business leaders, with insights from my own mentoring and coaching experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

You can hire the best salespeople, have great products and define good metrics, but without decisive and innovative managers, the sales organization will not reach its full potential. Leaders are needed to coach each salesperson, keep the team on message, and spur new growth and goals. Optimize the total customer experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. Every business and brand has unique requirements to fit into their market environment. Leadership brand development.

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Technical Review Organization Coach Invest 124

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 4, 2020

They know these exceptional leaders seem to have a way of finding and enticing the best people into the organization, getting exceptional performance out of them, and fast-tracking their careers both inside and outside the organization. Adapt the job or organization to fit the talent.

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Oracle Organization Examples Coach 124

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2019

That’s why I was pleased to see the balance on people versus process in a classic book on how to fix your organization, “ The Diamond Process ,” by Mike J Diamond and Christopher R Harding. Today’s pace of change in the market and in technology is unprecedented. Priority is placed on employee mentoring and coaching.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 29, 2019

I have personally used this approach in leading startups as well as large organizations, in highly technical roles as well as business development and marketing. For one-on-one coaching from the startup founder, I call this approach five-minute mentoring.

Mentor 124

Mentor Technical Review Coach Slides 124

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 6, 2012

As part of UC Santa Barbara’s Distinguished Lecture Series, serial entrepreneur, CEO Coach and Author Lex Sisney shared a preview of his newly released book, Organizational Physics: The Science of Growing a Business. Organizations Are Adaptive Systems. Organizations are complex systems that adapt to their environment in its totality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2022

Get organization alignment through culture and talent. Today even small businesses need complex organizations that work together in alignment, remote and online, including marketing, sales, delivery, and support. He is known for his bold mindset, and an all-in commitment to his visions.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 11, 2012

The following guest post is from Dan Monarko, Online Marketing Manager at The Resumator , a SaaS applicant tracking system and hiring platform trusted by many of the fastest-growing companies in the world, including: Pinterest, Tumblr, Hootsuite, Klout, Posterous, Bitly, Atari and Mashable. Commitment . Success is like anything worthwhile.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2020

Yet if you already have some early adopters, that's a good indication that real marketing and education will likely bring your product or service mass acceptance. Acquiring business skills is not rocket science; they can be learned on the job, as well as supplemented by coaching from an experienced team and advisors.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 12, 2011

The same is true at many startups, in which the initial strategy is straightforward and subject to change based on market conditions, as described in Point A To Point Z. Like the CEO of a BDC, indoor volleyball coaches can rest their players and strategically replace a player during a match.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Through the Social Venture Competition, 9 semi-finalist nonprofits competed in a business plan competition, presenting their plans to a panel of business and social investors who provided valuable feedback and coaching to each presenting organization. Where are the Social Capital Markets by Fran Seegull. See [link] (more).

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Unfortunately, I often see goal misalignments with teams, such as marketing measured on sales volume, or sales measured on customer retention. This will generate trust, loyalty, and continued accountability within the organization. The goal should always be coaching to solve problems, not blame assignment or negative feedback.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2014

What they do with the money is add more engineers and maybe hiring a marketing person. The best ones bring in more executive leadership so you can appropriate allocate resources across sales, marketing, product, engineering and support. You’re the coach, mentor, cheerleader. Objection Handling training.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

We all like to think of startups as “non hierarchic&# organizations and to some extent that should be true. I never built a Google-sized business but I did build an organization from scratch that grew to 120 employees in 5 countries before we sold it. The organization gets used to it and adjusts. Skipping is insidious.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2020

This almost always starts at the top, based on a founder’s dream and passion, without the proper homework on sizing the market, or assessing product realities. It’s easy for you to blame someone else in the organization, economic conditions outside, or even overly demanding customers, when things are not going well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2017

That’s why I was pleased to see the balance on people versus process in a new book on how to fix your organization, “ The Diamond Process ,” by Mike J Diamond and Christopher R Harding. Today’s pace of change in the market and in technology is unprecedented. Priority is placed on employee mentoring and coaching.

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Entrepreneur Coach Organization Mentor 78

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 1, 2008

I went to a meetup yesterday that was on the topic of Internet Marketing / SEO / SEM. Then the organizer went into a 20 minute sales pitch around his new training/coaching offering. The meeting had a decent case study and some pretty good discussion around the room of different tools that you might consider using.

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SEM SEO West Los Angeles Case Study 150

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2018

In my view, the most effective entrepreneurs are those with a background of an array of real-life experiences, both positive and negative, as well as good academic and coaching activities. Depth in a specific business area, such as marketing or accounting, is important in understanding the internal and external processes of a business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2022

Whole Foods , for example, has built their business with a commitment to natural and organic foods, and have a culture of loyal employees and customers, resulting in 500 stores worldwide. Your role is to provide this enablement, through listening to their needs, and providing personal coaching and mentoring as required.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2020

These are the timeless principles that must guide all hiring, marketing, and execution decisions. These will almost always be related to sales and marketing, since they must tie back to cash flow. Increase you focus on coaching, training, and mentoring. Implement the key business metrices you will live by.

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Metrics Entrepreneur Coach Satisfaction 140

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2017

For example, you probably never knew that both Facebook and YouTube started out as dating-site experiments, but pivoted to something more unique when that experiment failed due to an apparently over-crowded market. Organizations with a strong learning culture inevitably have a strong parallel culture of accountability.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Happy customers quickly become your biggest advocates, today reaching far beyond friends and family, and they make traditional marketing efforts pale in comparison for growth, loyalty, and new customer acquisition costs. The cost has been far more than offset by both customer loyalty and advocacy, as well as team spirit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

You can hire the best salespeople, have great products and define good metrics, but without decisive and innovative managers, the sales organization will not reach its full potential. Leaders are needed to coach each salesperson, keep the team on message, and spur new growth and goals. Optimize the total customer experience.

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Startup Sales Metrics Guide 97

socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2017

Diamond Bar-based LifeRay (www.liferay.com) is a company that not too many people have heard of, but which is used to run the websites for such well known organizations like Toyota, T-Mobile, Coach, Fujitsu, Allianz, and Sesame Street. However, they tend to be maverick developers in a large organization, or working independently.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Mistrustful leaders and organizations are preoccupied with keeping people from doing their worst. For example, measuring marketing team members on sales leads may not get you the revenue growth or trust you expected. Show humility while acting as a mentor and coach. Empower others to do their best.

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